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Oliver also hammered the $6B in "synergies." He called it what it is: a "bloodletting" of the creative class. Thousands of jobs at HBO, CNN, and Paramount are on the chopping block to pay for David Ellison's crown. 🛠️🪓 #SaveTheArts

Kulturtåget Malmö - demonstration för kulturen! Event in Malmö, Sweden by Kulturtåget Malmö and 6 others on Saturday, March 21 2026 with 655 people interested and 137 people going. 24 posts in the discussion.

Everyone in the cultural sector; stand up for the arts by joining the protestmarch for the #arts on Saturday March 21!

Invite everyone you know who cares for the arts! See you all at Lördagsplan, Malmö, at 12.00!

#artiswork #savethearts #music #culture

First the strikes, now a mega-merger. 🎬

Consolidating Paramount & WBD means fewer rooms for writers, fewer jobs for crews, and a "content desert" for fans. 🏜️

Don't let two giants become one behemoth. 🙅‍♂️
#SaveTheArts #ParamountWBD #MediaMonopoly #LaborRights

Tell Your Representative to Support Increased Federal Arts Funding for FY27 Congress needs to hear from you as it makes decisions about next year’s funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)! Contact your Representat...

#UnionStrong #SaveTheArts
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Love seeing the Halifax arts community show up loud today in protest of the Nova Scotia budget cuts. Hope to see some pressure on Tim Houston before the Wavemakers: Music Futures conference in a couple of weeks.

#NovaScotia #MusicNS #SaveTheArts

Want to directly support the work #FreelancersMakeTheatreWork do as we continue to lobby, advocate and fight for freelance voices in the UK arts sector?

freelancersmaketheatrework.com/supportfmtw/

#SaveTheArts

‘Even if we’re not subject to the same level of heavy-handed state interference in the UK, there is a growing culture of self-censorship, risk aversion and the excision of capital-P politics from theatre, which we don’t have to accept. The loss of freedom occurs by increment, until it comes in a rush.’

Political meddling in arts organisations across the globe is an issue for us all says Natasha Tripney in The Stage.

Read more here: www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/poli...

#TheArts #ArtsCensorship #SaveTheArts #FreelancersMakeTheatreWork

Save comics!
#SaveTheArts

"Drama instigates debate and changes lives. When civic life is under assault – theatres can play a vital role in restoring it" - Dan Hutton - Freelance director, theatre-maker, dramaturg and facilitator

#FreelancersMakeTheatreWork #Theatre #UKTheatre #UKArts #SaveTheArts

‘Even if we’re not subject to the same level of heavy-handed state interference in the UK, there is a growing culture of self-censorship, risk aversion and the excision of capital-P politics from theatre, which we don’t have to accept. The loss of freedom occurs by increment, until it comes in a rush.’

Political meddling in arts organisations across the globe is an issue for us all says Natasha Tripney in The Stage.

Read more here: www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/poli...

#TheArts #ArtsCensorship #SaveTheArts #FreelancersMakeTheatreWork

Sign the Petition Urge American Ballet Theatre to cancel upcoming Kennedy Center performances

c.org/YrJYRbnFgd

#FuckDJT #RemoveTheRegime #SaveTheArts #Ballet #KennedyCenter

For those days when you're overstimulated and need to scream but just can't let it out, check out these dope adult digital coloring books: angryartistapparel.bigcartel.com/category/dig... #savethearts

What We Will Lose When California College of the Arts Closes After the closures of the San Francisco Art Institute and Mills College, the announced end of CCA hits triply hard.

What the Closure of California College of the Arts Means | KQED www.kqed.org/arts/1398541... #tragic #SavetheArts #ArtsEd

‘Even if we’re not subject to the same level of heavy-handed state interference in the UK, there is a growing culture of self-censorship, risk aversion and the excision of capital-P politics from theatre, which we don’t have to accept. The loss of freedom occurs by increment, until it comes in a rush.’

Political meddling in arts organisations across the globe is an issue for us all says Natasha Tripney in The Stage.

Read more here: www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/poli...

#TheArts #ArtsCensorship #SaveTheArts #FreelancersMakeTheatreWork

‘Why leave the moral high ground to individual artists, who have so much more to lose’ - Lyn Gardner, theatre critic and associate editor of The Stage

#FreelancersMakeTheatreWork #Theatre #UKTheatre #UKArts #SaveTheArts"

Want to learn more/help?
@EquityUK (UK)
@SAGAFTRA (US)
@actors_equity (US)
Read “Creativity and the Performing Artist” by Thomson & Jaque.
Support the arts AND the humans who make them. 💙
#MentalHealthMatters #SaveTheArts

What We Do — Restore the Music We run events that give kids a chance to perform, and to be inspired by incredible artists and music brands. We also hold an annual Gala Fundraiser to raise crucial funding for our grant programme.

Check out Restore The Music, trying to keep and widen access to music learning for young people, they are amazing restorethemusicuk.com/what-we-do #music #youth #culture #SaveTheArts #access

What We Do — Restore the Music We run events that give kids a chance to perform, and to be inspired by incredible artists and music brands. We also hold an annual Gala Fundraiser to raise crucial funding for our grant programme.

Check out Restore The Music, trying to keep and widen access to music learning for young people, they are amazing restorethemusicuk.com/what-we-do #music #youth #culture #SaveTheArts #access

Project seeks funds to save world’s first amphitheatre made from old pianos SUPPORTERS are tuning into an appeal for key funds to create a permanent cosy home for the world’s first amphitheatre made entirely out of old…

Can the world's first amphitheatre made from old pianos be saved? Join the effort to preserve this unique musical landmark! #SaveTheArts

www.thenational.scot/news/25678441.bid-save-w...

“I believe theatre will always prevail, but we need support, and we need it to be viewed with genuine respect.” - Andrew Scott, Actor.

#FreelancersMakeTheatreWork #Theatre #UKTheatre #UKArts #SaveTheArts

Behåll Linköpings Akademiska Orkester som en del av Linköpings universitet LAO bidrar med mycket både till universitetet och till musiklivet. Dels så finns det ett egenvärde i att ha en stor bredd av olika föreningar vid universitetet för att berika kulturlivet och attrahera...

Please, sign this petition to save Linköping Academic Orchestra (LAO) from being disbanded by Linköping University! #savethearts #artiswork #kulturskymning

Joe Gilmour on inequality between employees and freelancers The sacrifices that freelancers make to participate in self-funded events chimes with the wider issue of unpaid work in the industry, says Joe Gilmour

The sacrifices that freelancers make to participate in self-funded events chimes with the wider issue of unpaid work in the industry, says Joe Gilmour in The Stage...

www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/ineq...

#FreelancersMakeTheatreWork #Theatre #UKTheatre #UKArts #SaveTheArts

Y'all, in addition to calling out the bullshit in our government, please don't forget to call out the bullshit people try to pass of as AI "art".

You deserve no credit for "please create an image of a woman in a red dress lying on the beach". Sora did that, not you.

#savethearts

Image Description: Text card - “The future looks bleak for our creative industries unless we act now. Unless we let our government know the situation we’re in. Unless we get them to recognise that theatre doesn’t make sense in pockets of Britain but rather needs to be present in the entirety of Britain.” - The quote is credited to freelance writer, Jack Thorne

Playwright and screenwriter Jack Thorne, creator of Netflix’s Adolescence, urges political leaders to recognise the scale of challenge facing the British theatre sector and to act before it’s too late.

uktheatre.org/jack-thorne-...

FreelancersMakeTheatreWork #UKArts #SaveTheArts

Want to directly support the work #FreelancersMakeTheatreWork do as we continue to lobby, advocate and fight for freelance voices in the UK arts sector?

freelancersmaketheatrework.com/supportfmtw/

#SaveTheArts

"Drama instigates debate and changes lives. When civic life is under assault – theatres can play a vital role in restoring it" - Dan Hutton - Freelance director, theatre-maker, dramaturg and facilitator

#FreelancersMakeTheatreWork #Theatre #UKTheatre #UKArts #SaveTheArts

Downtime helps artists look up and see the path we have chosen. - Stephanie Street (actor, writer and co-founder of Act for Change) in The Stage.

www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/down...

#FreelancersMakeTheatreWork #Theatre #UKTheatre #UKArts #SaveTheArts #ArtsAccess

Downtime helps artists look up and see the path we have chosen. - Stephanie Street (actor, writer and co-founder of Act for Change) in The Stage.

www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/down...

#FreelancersMakeTheatreWork #Theatre #UKTheatre #UKArts #SaveTheArts #ArtsAccess

Image Description: Text card - “The future looks bleak for our creative industries unless we act now. Unless we let our government know the situation we’re in. Unless we get them to recognise that theatre doesn’t make sense in pockets of Britain but rather needs to be present in the entirety of Britain.” - The quote is credited to freelance writer, Jack Thorne

Playwright and screenwriter Jack Thorne, creator of Netflix’s Adolescence, urges political leaders to recognise the scale of challenge facing the British theatre sector and to act before it’s too late.

uktheatre.org/jack-thorne-...

FreelancersMakeTheatreWork #UKArts #SaveTheArts